ROS Sound

have to git clone https://github.com/ros-drivers/audio_common.git on kinetic since it isn’t a package there yet.

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Usb Cam

usb_cam works great on my external logitech webcam, but the onboard laptop camera produces a very glitchy video and gets all these errors:

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git fix fork master

Was lazy about forking a repo and then making local changes to default branch, now want all changes that correspond to issues/pull request to go into uniquely named branches, and have the default branch track the upstream repo.

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gazebo

``` lucasw@glover:~/tmp_catkin_ws$ roslaunch rrbot_gazebo rrbot_world.launch … logging to /home/lucasw/.ros/log/300a352e-ecb1-11e5-b860-00dbdf11ceac/roslaunch-glover-2577.log Checking log directory for disk usage. This may take awhile. Press Ctrl-C to interrupt Done checking log file disk usage. Usage is <1GB.

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rqt gui renaming issue

mkdir -p tmp_catkin_ws/src
cd tmp_catkin_ws/src
catkin_init_workspace
git clone https://github.com/lucasw/rqt_mypkg.git
cd ..
catkin_make
source devel/setup.bash
rosrun rqt_mypkg rqt_mypkg
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Rviz

Can select be made to publish the points in a point cloud it selects?

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ROS Rviz

--in-mc-wrapper This enable a change master option, selecting crashes rviz however.

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git cleanup

Going through git repos that I’m still using and making them all use a consistent user name and email so the commits link by to my profile. The anonymous noreply email didn’t work.

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OpenMVG

Is the ceres I have installed already conflicting, or is it using a submodule version that is wrong?

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ROS Blockly 2

The reason that Erle forked blockly is because their custom blockly blocks are stored in it. There ought to be a way to put these in ros_blockly, and for any I or anyone else creates in a third repo.

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ROS Blockly

Following the install instructions from ros blockly. It is weird to clone inside of other directories, I guess it is enforcing relative paths.

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